A team-based firefighter training platform using the virtual environment

Abstract

The increasing complexity of modern buildings, such as high-rise buildings and underground subway stations, has brought about an increase in the scale of potential hazards, which in turn requires changes in firefighter training. Due to cost, time, and safety requirements for the trainee, it is impossible for firefighters in training to experience a real fire. In additional, repeated training is impossible if real fire were used. We proposed a team-based firefighter training platform using the virtual environment for complex buildings. The platform provides training and evaluation of firefighting and mission-based team training. To achieve an immersive virtual environment, VR, AR and haptics technique is adopted. A numerical analysis method is used to model real fire phenomena.